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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "from: the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• This email message is a fake lottery scam. Consider the following facts about real lotteries:
  
  1. They don't notify winners by email.
  2. You can't win without first buying a lottery ticket.
  3. They don't randomly select email addresses to award prizes to.
  4. They don't use free email accounts (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc) to communicate with you.
  5. They don't tell you to call a mobile phone number.
  6. They don't tell you to keep your winnings secret.
  7. They will never ask a winner to pay any fees to receive a prize!
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +34622610626 (Spain, prepaid mobile phone)
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • lottreynavidaddos@mail.com
  • lotterynavidad@mail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: COMFORT <loto-club115@spannermail.com>
Reply-To: trustsecurity115@hotmail.com
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 00:07:05 +0100
Subject: CONGRATULATION YOUR EMAIL WAS ONE OF THE LUCKY WINNER 2007





EURO MILLIONES LOTTERY ESPAÑA
C / CORDOBA Nº 14 PLANTA 2-A
28089 MADRID, ESPANA
FROM: THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT,
DATE...1st Febuary 2007.
RE/AWARD NOTIFICATION; FINAL NOTICE
(¡) REFERENCE: 67/80/IPD
( ¡¡)BATCH: EGGS-541-623-782
Finally today 12TH OF JANUARY, the result of winners of the Euro
millions Spanish Lottery International E-mail programs held on the 28TH OF
DECEMBER 2006 was announced. Your company or your personal e-mail
address attached to ticket number 653-908-321-675 with serial main number
345-790-241-671 drew lucky star numbers 34-32-90-43-32 which consequently
won in the 2ND category, you have therefore been approved for a lump
sum pay out of ¤ 1.000.000.00 Euros.(One Million Euros).
CONGRATULATIONS!!! .
Selection process was carried out through random selection in our
computerized email selection machine (TOPAZ) from a database of over
1,000,000 email addresses drawn from all the continents of the world.
The online draws was conducted by a random selection of email addresses
from an exclusive list of 29,031 E-mail addresses of individuals and
corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search
from the internet.
No ticket were sold but all email addresses were assigned to different
ticket numbers for representation and privacy.
This is to encourage our prominent Microsoft Internet Explorer users
all over the world.this is to encourage users to Continues the use of
E-mail and non users to try and use emails. Microsoft Electronic Mail
Lottery is approved and Licensed by the The International Association of
Lotteria ( IAL). And ensure to keep your winning information from the
public unitl your winning award is finally credited into your designated
account of your choice.
(This is important as a case of double claims will not be entertained.
To claim your winning prize, you should contact the office by email for
Processing and remittance of your winning funds to you,Email:
The Claims Officers:
NAME:MRS MARIA WILLIAMS
Email:lottreynavidaddos@mail.com
Tel :+34-622-610-626
Or:
DR.TOM BLATT,
LIBERTY SECURITY COMPANY S.A
28015, MADRID ESPAÑA.
Email: lotterynavidad@mail.com
Tel : +34-622-212-572
Remember, all winning must be claimed not later than two weeks, after
this date all unclaimed funds will be included in the next stake.Please
note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications please
remember to quote your Reference number and Batch numbers in all
correspondence with the claims officer.
Furthermore, should there be any change of address do inform our agent
as soon as possible.
Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you for
being part of our promotional program.We hope with part of your winning
you will take part in our end of year 50 millions Euro International
lottery.
Sincerely yours,
MRS,COMFORT JOSE
Director Online International Promotions Unit/Lottery Co-ordinator.
http://online.terra.es
N.B:
1.All claims are nullified after 14 working days from today.
2.Do inform the claims officer of any change of names or addressess.
3.All winners under the age of 18 are automatically disqualified.
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